Disrupt SF 2013 Coverage

After three days and some truly incredible pitches from each of our 30 Battlefield competitors, the time has finally come to crown a Disrupt Battlefield champion. Competition among this year’s pack of six finalists — Dryft, Fates Forever, Layer, Soil IQ, Regalii, and Cota by Ossia — was as stiff as ever, but even with a batch as strong as this, only one startup can take home… Read More

GitHub has made its name as an online repository for developers to post, borrow and collaborate on code together — with active users now numbering 4 million — but in the future it wants to take that model to new frontiers as a center for all kinds of online collaboration. “We want lawyers, people in the government, everyone to use GitHub,” its co-founder and CEO Tom… Read More

Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems who later went on to create Khosla Ventures, says that the vast majority of VCs aren’t in a position to offer decent advice to startups.
In fact, most of them probably hurt startups, he argued.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington prodded Khosla to single out VCs that were horrible on boards.
“Who is the VC who is the most… Read More

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington and Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla took the stage to discuss the areas Khosla is currently most interested in. Besides food tech, the one area that seems to get him the most excited is clearly medicine. In his believe, “in the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all… Read More

Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt we hosted a panel discussing Bitcoin (a recap can be found here). During the course of that discussion, I noticed something interesting: The former boom in the price of Bitcoin, and its ensuing refractory period, is quite similar to the NASDAQ’s infamous boom in the late ’90s. Read More

It’s hardware day here at Disrupt SF and this morning’s sessions kicked off with an interview with Nicholas Woodman, founder and CEO of action camera company GoPro. Woodman discussed how the GoPro evolved from being a wrist-mounted prototype he came up with on a surfing trip to today’s hugely successful clip-on-anywhere lens that can capture the action from a variety of… Read More

Here’s a question that more than few consumer hardware startups are struggling with these days: should they try and raise money from a slew of wary investors or bring their projects to the public in hopes of a Pebble-style success? GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman sat with down with our own Matt Burns on the Disrupt SF 2013 stage to address that same question, and his message… Read More

Greek startup Juengo (pronounced Joo-en-go), has an interesting spin on loyalty and are live with their concept in Greece.
The concept — which is on display at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 — rewards consumers for the actions they do instead of the items they purchase. Read More